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Vision-Based Neurosurgical Guidance: Unsupervised Localization and Camera-Pose Prediction

Sarwin, Gary, Carretta, Alessandro, Staartjes, Victor, Zoli, Matteo, Mazzatenta, Diego, Regli, Luca, Serra, Carlo, Konukoglu, Ender

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Localizing oneself during endoscopic procedures can be problematic due to the lack of distinguishable textures and landmarks, as well as difficulties due to the endoscopic device such as a limited field of view and challenging lighting conditions. Expert knowledge shaped by years of experience is required for localization within the human body during endoscopic procedures. In this work, we present a deep learning method based on anatomy recognition, that constructs a surgical path in an unsupervised manner from surgical videos, modelling relative location and variations due to different viewing angles. At inference time, the model can map an unseen video's frames on the path and estimate the viewing angle, aiming to provide guidance, for instance, to reach a particular destination. We test the method on a dataset consisting of surgical videos of transsphenoidal adenomectomies, as well as on a synthetic dataset.